Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Jul 2011)
Memorie difficili. Antifascismo italiano, volontariato internazionale e guerra civile spagnola
Abstract
Since the end of the civil war the Italian antifascist intervention in Spain has generated several memories often conflicting with each other. Between 1936 and 1939 the Italian contribution to the republican cause was a joint one, involving all the antifascist political groups as it was for none of the other national groups. In order to understand the origin of what could be defined a real ‘atomization of memory’, the manifold legacies of the Spanish experience are to be analyzed both in the difficult two-year period 1943-1945 and during the first years of the postwar period.